An orthopaedic practice in Albuquerque offering same-day injections of the patient's own fat tissue combined with platelet rich plasma for damaged joints and tendons.
Academy Orthopaedic Clinic is an orthopaedic practice at 8301 Spain Road Northeast in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The pages reviewed present it as an orthopaedic clinic with a regenerative medicine arm focused on musculoskeletal injuries and arthritis. The treatment it describes in most detail is a combined injection of the patient's own fat tissue and platelet rich plasma (PRP, prepared from a sample of the patient's own blood).
The procedure as the site describes it is straightforward: fat tissue is taken from the patient, processed in a centrifuge, and injected into the damaged joint along with concentrated platelets. The site states the concentrate immediately adds cushioning and a lubricating effect to the joint while the cells in it stimulate new tissue. It describes this as a same-day, low-risk outpatient procedure. The claim about regeneration of new tissue is the clinic's own account of the mechanism and should be read as such rather than as demonstrated fact; the cushioning effect of injected fat is a different and more immediate claim from tissue regeneration, and the two are worth separating in conversation with the clinic.
This is an autologous (from the patient's own body) model: the material comes from the patient's own fat and blood, with no donor tissue named anywhere. The site also refers to blood, fat and bone marrow as natural sources of stem cells, which suggests bone marrow aspirate concentrate may be available, but the pages reviewed describe only the fat and platelet combination in detail. A prospective patient should ask how much fat is taken and from where, what the processing involves, whether the injection is image-guided, and whether bone marrow is an alternative. It is also worth asking about the regulatory position, since minimally manipulated same-day fat procedures and more extensively processed preparations are treated differently in the United States.
The conditions named are tendon and ligament injuries including tears, pulls, strains and sprains, arthritis, and damage to the hips, knees and shoulders. Thomas Grace is named as the clinic's physician, described as having extensive experience in regenerative medicine for musculoskeletal injury and arthritis, though the pages reviewed do not publish his board certification. The clinic's telephone number is given as 505-821-6663. No prices, founding year or languages are published, so cost and insurance coverage would need to be raised directly.
The site names the following problems in connection with its regenerative injections.
The site states that the procedure uses stem cells from the patient's own fat tissue, processed in a centrifuge and injected together with concentrated platelets from the patient's own blood.
The site names one physician.
The clinic is at 8301 Spain Road Northeast in the north-east of Albuquerque. The site describes an outpatient orthopaedic setting where fat is harvested, processed by centrifuge and injected on the same day. That implies on-site processing equipment, although no laboratory, cleanroom or accreditation is described on the pages reviewed, and the site does not say whether injections are performed under ultrasound or fluoroscopic guidance.
The site publishes no prices for the fat and platelet injection or any other treatment, and says nothing about insurance coverage. Regenerative injections of this kind are usually self-funded in the United States, so cost should be confirmed with the clinic before proceeding.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.